Yay! Andy did a great job adding stats to the Dashboard! Here’s a screenshot.
This should make blogging at WordPress.com even more attractive as you know other people are going to know about what you’re blogging.
I’m still rather fond of reading the site through an RSS feed but that’s only managable now because there are so few blogs being updated.
When we’re bigger than Blogger.com that won’t be as easy!
Tag Archives: WordPress
AJAX Instant Messenger
Free Online Image Editor
This image editor is rather basic looking but powerful. You can rotate, resize, add text and clipart, colour correct and more. Unfortunately the license isn’t compatible with the GPL so it would be impossible to use in WordPress or other such licened projects.
SmartyPress – Smarty Driven WordPress
SmartyPress is another Smarty driven WordPress project.
It looks interesting, and I had the thought that it might be possible to paste an alternative template system into WordPress by piggy-backing on top of the current system.
The home.php, single.php, index.php files of the various themes could be loaders for another more secure templating system rather than PHP. It would certainly make editing templates and securing them against abuse easier, although for WordPress.com we have even fancier ideas to be announced later!
WPMU Updates
Here’s a brief summary of what’s been happening.
WordPress MU Feedback
Matt took time out to update the feedback form in WordPress MU and WordPress.com today! Here’s a taster of what it looks like:
See the “Feedback” link above there? Hit that to send feedback to the admins of your WPMU site.
This is the feedback form that appears. It’s already being used on WordPress.com to great affect, reporting bugs and suggestions from users to the admins.
Thank you for your feedback. The great thing about this is that you can send feedback about the current page without disturbing what you’ve been doing. It’s sent to the server via an AJAX request and happens without refreshing the page!
Ebay: WordPress Invite For Sale!
What's this WordPress.com thing anyway?
Lots of people are asking about WordPress.com, fortunately for them there has been lots said about it already, both on the wp-hackers list, and on the WPMU blog. Usually without much feedback which I have found strange, but there you go!
The question comes up on IRC frequently, and here’s what I said a short while ago:
<donncha> it’s just WordPress.. if you already run a WordPress blog then you know a lot about what WordPress.com will be 🙂
It’s that, but also more. WordPress.com is going to be a great site and a shining example of what can be built on GPL software!
Welcome to WordPress.com
Looks like Matt has started giving out WordPress.com invites. Hmm.
Only one per person, who would you give your invite to?
Automated PHP code security checking
In my quest to find way of securing 3rd party PHP code I discovered the PHP Security Scanner. This could be a first stage check in the process of checking WordPress templates.
Afterwards we’d have to flag unwanted commands. Well, we don’t want people opening /etc/passwd now do we?